Coherence Meditation App
Digital Product Design
The Coherence Meditation App helps health-conscious, spiritual people bring tranquility to their lives and to the world, by increasing a feeling of collective connection and oneness, while balancing the mind and body via synchronized, focused meditation. Unlike apps such as Headspace, which focus on meditation in isolation, Coherence is built on synchronized practice; research has shown it can affect the collective consciousness in ways that individual meditation cannot.
Onboarding mockup: “Expand your consciousness. Save our world.” above the geometric globe.
Home screen: personal and all-user activity charts beside the Prepare to cohere button.
Prep screen: intention prompts before a session; “Make selections or Commence to start.”
Meditation and congrats screens: breathing with the pulsating globe, 7,357 people connected, then a thank-you.
The onboarding flow clearly explains the concept as it builds, and allows users to sign in via multiple social channels including Facebook, Twitter or Google, so as to maximize the number of participants.
Onboarding flow: five screens build the concept, ending in sign-up via Google, Facebook or Twitter.
The hero flow provides a data visualization to show individual user and overall activity. As an engagement method, we gamify the app's usage by creating a level system. Users increase their level/ranking in accordance with the amount of time they spend in the app. Users can also increase their level for posting in the message board. The ranking corresponds to the ascension of the chakras.
Hero flow: from the activity dashboard through Prepare to cohere and meditation to the thank-you screen.
To create the app, I wrote a value proposition statement, listed scenarios for how people could use the app, conducted desk research to explore analogous domains, created an object model of features I wanted to include in the app, wrote up the brand personality and brand persona, listed engagement methods, put together an element collage to influence the style and design, created pencil prototypes and low-fidelity prototypes and conducted user testing, created greyscale wireframes, a final brand personality style frame, and then created the high-fidelity prototypes, which I put through user testing.
Design process: sticky-note object model, user flows, Sketch wireframes and the brand personality style frame.
Coherence is a meditation app designed by Husani Barnwell around a differentiating idea: synchronized, collective practice rather than meditation in isolation. Onboarding built for scale, a gamified hero flow that maps progress to the ascension of the chakras, and a documented design process running from value proposition and object modeling through pencil prototypes, user testing and user-tested high-fidelity prototypes.